• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    Stop fucking calling racist propaganda “memes”

    Like, it’s just handing them the “just a joke bro” because they don’t have the shame to even say it when called out anymore.

    Racism is about the only part of Trump’s platform his voters still like, that’s why he’s going back to the same old well.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      Unfortunately the word “meme” has come to mean “any image shared over the internet”.

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        The origin of the word meme, as well as the concepts before the coining of the term by Richard Dawkins, are all neutral to the subject or purpose. A meme can easily be hate speech if it’s spread as any meme is. It’s true that its use in popular culture now mainly means something that has spread on the internet (not just an image), but that’s only because the internet is the fastest way for anything to travel through large populations.

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      it always gets me all the democrats who have resigned or stepped down from running. Over things that are nothing even before relatively speaking. Waltz I think being the latest.

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        This kind of shit would end just about any career in Europe. What are you talking about? Yes, we have a problem with Nazis. In my opinion an even worse problem, because they act fairly smart. This is why no party would post images like trump does. That would end their cause immediately.

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    If I was an Obama I’d put together a press conference and say “that orange thing can call me what he likes, at least I don’t rape children like he does. Anyone who, so far, has had their name mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files is not an innocent person, they are just a paedophile trying to distract everyone.”

    I would not have mentioned anybody by name, and that fat litigious cunt can try to sue me if they want to. The discovery part of it all would be enlightening.

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    “The world respects America again” … Yeah sure we do /s Must be a real wild time to be an American. How many still dare to admit being one these days while being abroad ?

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    The only thing that surprises me is that it took so long. We all know that Trump is a racist, child-raping POS, so I’m more curious about the people who are genuinely surprised that he did this.

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    If he says racist shit, then maybe people will stop talking that he is a pedophile that hangs around in cannibal child molestation parties of the global elite.

    Racism might be a positive to some and it divides the people who who would normally want to hang him and his buddies for being a pedophile and a rapist.

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    I remember when Obama was first elected, my grandpa was listening to Rush Limbaugh talking about some political toon that depicted the Obamas dressed in Taliban robes holding AKs and burning the flag in a fireplace (and you know how Rush was).

    So yeah. This tracks.